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HENRY G. REYNOLDS
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Practical Dreamers
By RUTH TAYLOR

The present decade may be an age of realism, and the
time may call for realistic thinking, as some men say. But
~too often realism has meant stooping to the mire, reflecting
only the ugly, rather than reaching upwards toward the

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beauty. of the stars.

Realism has its value~but the great

things of life have been done by the dreamers~by those
who looked ahead and then made their dreams come true.
Thoreau once said: ~If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost: that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.~
This is the task confronting the practical dreamers of

today.

They do not deny the evil and ugliness abroad in

the world. They do, however, look through and beyond
and build, even if only in visions, the world as it should
be~a place where all groups and individuals can and will
recognize each others rights as they recognize their own
obligations, where all peoples, regardless of race or creed
or color, can work together in a spirit of cooperation, and
live together in mutual trust, friendship and brotherhood.

The dream of a world such as this MUST be fulfilled.
Firm foundations must be built for it, if the world is to

emerge from the chaos which now envelops it.

We must

hegin to dream now and to build now, for foundations are
not built all at once, but stone by stone, slowly and Jaboriously. There must be no defective material used, nothing
that will not stand the strain and stress of the winter~s

gales.

The foundation.must be absolute justice toward all

~not justice according to man~s deserts, but justice which
affords to every living soul the opportunity to build his life
without fear, and with freedom from want, to worship in
his own way, and to hold his head up as a free man.

Such a task will require the selfless devotion on the
part of all those who honestly desire a permanent peace

based on international understanding.

In our common re
liance on one ancther in a time of crisis, we are linked to
gether as never before.

Not only is there a national unity

developing steadily, but there is a unity of thought and
purpose among those whose interest include the future as

well as the present.

Now is the time for all dreamers to

get together and work out a firm foundation under their
dreams for a better world for all mankind.

Two Men Give

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bond.

Judge warned Andrew Q. Young,
67, Monday to ~improve his mémory~ before he returned to the witness stand under penalty of imprisonment. Reluctant to testify
against Everett I. Watson, he denied secret. testimony given before
grand jury in which he linked Watson with operation.of the Yellow
Dog policy and numbers house. After court sessions, Watson asked
permission to talk to Young and
told him to ~tell the truth.~

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Young admitted he received $20
a week in 1934 to accompany Miss
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alleged cashier of the Watson policy.
house, on collection trips. However,
Young said he did not know from
whom she collected the money and
denied knowing Watson~s connection with the policy syndicate.

Two other witnesses who testified
Friday, Jimmy McAfee and Monroe
Hunter, admitted that they had
worked as cashiers for the Big Four.
McAfee said he had been hired by
Al Gaskill and later promoted to
cashier by William H. Robinson.

The jury was told Thursday by
Roy Mapp, cashier fof five years of
Tia Juana and Interstate policy
house, that this was part of the
Big Four enterprises and that the
concern did on the average of $700
a day. The witness told of picnics
given by the owners of the gambling
ring for employees of Tia Juana
ana Interstate, and also stated that
he was still working:-for the company, that they had just completed
the previous day~s business.

Later testimony of Jimmy McAfee
and Monroe Hunter, revealed that
they had been employed by Claude
Roxborough and that they turned
the money collected over to either
Earl Hutchins or Al Gaskins.

Also claiming ~employment by
Claude Roxborough was Mrs. Josephine Hughes who~ testified that
she worked as a clerk. Dan Ellis,
said he had been hired by John
Roxborough to work as _ night
watchman in 1932, that he remained
with the company until early 1940.
During the period 1936 to 1940, he
stated that he was elevated to the
position of special policeman, escorting the money taken by either
McAfee or Hunter to different
places.;

Ugly Tactics Are
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where there are sinful, money
hungry undertakers who will dc
anything just so they can grab
the business. The bedside watchers and hospital tipsters are as
low and mean as is the undertak
er racketeer. They are indecen*
and vulgar!.

Practically all important industrial establishment in Free China
provide food and housing for their:
employees, the Department of Commerce says. ae

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The Faded Leaves And!

We search for rest the whole day long, -
The faded leaves and I,

Nobody now wan; to hear our song~
The faded leaves and I

Have lost our youth~and where he clung
The call goes forth to claim the young,
Along want~s chilly banks we're strung

The faded leaves and I.

When we had soothing words and aid |
The faded leaves and I,

/ They sought us for

solace and shade~

The faded leaves and I,

But now, there~s naught that we can lend,
And we await the journey~s end,~
Without a worshipper or friend

The faded leaves and T. _

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CAPITOL

COMMENT |

BY AL WHITE

WASHINGTON (ANP) ~ Chicago~s gift to the FEPC, Jean
Ciijion, one of thc@ girls lixe
Rochester described~put enough
cream in your cfffee and: thar
she is! Working with G_ James
Fleming in an office which hither~to was lily-white.

Ted Poston Was out in Denver
spreading his~ stuff last week, according to his boss,

The crowds in the newly decorated Capital grill, with the bar being
the magnet that draws ~em: Lelia
is in charge as usual] and *iakes
things hum all the time, Al Franklin is her first assistant, but somepees Bossme@#n John Oarter has
to fill in to take care of the gang.

Jack Carter, manager oi the
Lincoln theatre, is one of the
~regulars~ Bobbie Lewis from.

the; Capitol is ancther~and others~ too numerous to mention,

Who is responsible for telling the
fclk to speak on.that theme, ~No

| matter how bad this country is,

it would be worse for Negroes
under Hitler?~ It is gaining momentum with every new speech
made, Walter White used it at the
Bethune dinner-meeting a couple
of Saturdays ago) and on Sunday.

Mrs. Bethune used the same theme!

herself, speaking at the Jernigan
meeting at, the Elks home,

Somebody is that line
out especially for Negroes and the
folk are wearing it down ta a

frazzle, Things have come to a |

pass when this pap has to be
poured down Negroes~ throats. But
reading the account of the FEP
hearing in Los Angeles in the news
columns as seen through the eyes
of the ANP man proves it is necesssry tc do something to stir
the Negroes out of their present
attitude toward Uncle Samuel
Uncle hasn~t been any too kind
to his dark skinned nephews, but
now the wolf is at the door, Oh,
boy!

~

A map.in Major Campbell Johnson~s office listing the people of
the United States showing their
places of origin. All whites are
shown as coming from various
countries; Ozechoslovakia, Great
Britain, Germany, Ireland, and so
on, The map ts a picture map with
figures on it, Throughout each
section of the country, these figures are shown engaged in all
kinds of work. And under the figures are printed the country from
which they came. But when they~
come to the Negroes, they give no
country, just write the word, Ne-gro, under the figures, instead of
naming some country, A list of
leaders jn several fields arts, literature, sclence and so forth is also
shown on this map. And names of
the leaders gre followed by their
olace of birth. Marian Anderson
heading the music group is slated
as not being from any country,
merely as Negro, Dr. George Washnig Carver,~ heading the scientists,

What Negro regiment has three
colonels? TwWo white and one Nesro? And what does the war department uave so say about that?

Carter Jackson, a Washingtonian, we knew him in Harlem
though, bent a friendly elbow with
us Sunday evening. We adlibbed at
~ength.

Funny that-most of the rejected
Negro selective are clessified as

being mental defectives, This city |;

has the largest proportion of rejects in the country among Ne
groes. Are all Negroes mentai defectives? Or is it imaginary?

What happened to Crystal Byrd
Fauset Sunday afternoon when she
was scheduled to speak at the
Stop Hitler meeting?

Former New York Assemblyman
James E. Stephens was an_ interested listener to the plans for the
furtherance of the civilian defense
program ~Sunday,

fThat picture of Bill Robinson
kissing the ~tree of hope~ stump
while Fred R:. Moore, Mayor LeGijyrdia and sundry other folks
looked on, could well: have been
left out of the last issue of ~LIFE~~

Who is going to be the new at
torney in the OPM? Has Dr.
Weaver found a man for, that
spot as- yet? -

And who is going to get the
post as secretary to Jesse O. Thomas, new assistant to Dean Pickens
in the treasury department?

Down in the Library of Congress
the other day, reading up on some
ancient stuff, found a book of verse
by Frank Marshall Davis, published
by the Black Cat publishing company in 1935, already in the RARE
BOOK DIVISION, How come,
Frank?

Item from the ~STATE~ dated,
Richmond, Virginia, September 27,, 1893, ~The Negroes Will Resist.~
} (Telegraphed today to the State)
Lexington, Ky., September 27, The
~colored people of this state have
j toryned a powerful -organizetion
end raised $40,000 to fight Separate
Coach bill R. G. Ingersoll and ex
tained to fight the measure.

Nora Holt Ray, chic and charming, is now a resident of Washington, In her own words, ~I have
lifed in every thet cgoital of
the world, so I thought I ought
to be right here~ in Washington,
since this seems to be the world~s
capital now,~ |

Truman Gibson, war department
executive, back from an extensive
trip which took him as far south
as New Orleans.

Uneasiness in three or four departments, The proposed NYA and
CCC merger has started qestions
in both spots, The NYA has lots
of colored employes, the CCC not
so many, but a few anyhow. Then,
in the housing situation the USHA.
the defense hcusing, the PWA, all
mixed up in building houses jn the
present emergency~with many Negroes employed in fhe departments
also in a dither as to what is going to happen next.

FINE FOR KIDNEY
AND BLADDER
WEAKNESS |

Stop Getting Up Nights ~Feel
Younger or )
Keep your ~blood more ~free from
~waste matter,

on the bex ~ 35

Here~s Happy Way T

Year in and. year out spicy, aroa standby in thousands of Ameri
Wake Lazy Insides

| versity of Tennessee, aptly: express
Governor Hoadley have been re-'

year, write a piece under tiie

| frown covered the face of the

~| of men and women and children
| dying by tens of thousands on the

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WALTER CHIVERS SAYS:

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Tomorrow's Negro
I HAVE JUST arrived in Nash
in these meetings is the quality of
tomorrow's children.~ |

The evident sanity and sincerity
of purpose displayed in these conference have convinced the most
skeptical and conservative laymen
that they are thoroughly practical
and highly beneficial, This is a
compliment to the conference because the South, today, is more
sensitive to analysis, criticism of
even friendship from ~furriners~
than at any time since the Civil
War.

OUTLINES PURPOSE

The executive chairman of the
conference, Dr. William E. Ccle,
Professor of Sociology in the Uni
ed the guiding purpose of the conference when he wrote that, ~now
it seems to me, the time has come
to explore further and to make
some attempt to discuss what kind
of a society will be the heritage of
tomorrow~s children, At this crucial time the future of many of us
is clouded and uncertain Yet, it
is up to us, who believe that freedom is the essential ingredient of

any civilization worthy of name, to

SHOULD BECOME INTERESTED

Every Negro pastor, school teach~er, lodge leader, missionary worker
should be forced to linger for brief
periods at regular interval, in the
city residential slums; on the Decatur, Beale, State, 18th Streets
and Cedar, Lenox and Fourth Avenues; in the sections where the
produce row, and curb markeis
are located. What they would see
is too pitiful to imagine and too
drab to describe.

An idea might be gained if I
mention the Negro children eating
garbage out of the-cans on Broad
Street in Atlanta in the early evenings: the Negro- adolescent girls
soliciting on the streets of Knoxville, Tennessee, unmolested; the
adolescent couples salvaging a few
~thunks~ of coal and kindling from
the railroad yards.

These are factual conditions but
they do not seem to disturb the
Negro Sunday. Schools for those
that I have attended have no program for the prevention of delinquency neither for rehabilitation of

youth, The Sunday School which

that there are more Negro children
born
the Negro community are sable to
provide with a chance in life to

decent. The remedy seems tc

be two-fold, first, family regulation |

on 3 Scientific basis and second, a
broad~ and intensive program of
Adult Education in the proper way
to raise a child.

MUCH SOUND WISDOM

There is much sound wisdom in
the quotation which reads, ~raise
a child in the way it shall go and
when it is old it will not depart
from it.~

Dr. Henry H Walker, Clinician,

~Negro Maternal - Health Clinics |

Nashville, Tennessee, will report on

Friday morning on. the. ~Nashville |

Negro Experiment in Family ~Planning.~ ~I hope he gives me some--
thing of value, to bring to you. At
least Nashville is at last conscious
of what Cedar Sireet is doing to
tomorrow~s Negro children.

FROM MY STUDY WINDOW ~o.+. mom

IT IS BECAUSE this is
tragically _true, that I was more
than surprised to see in in one of
our nationally known fictorial
news reviews recenty the photographic chronicle of the life and
love of a typical middle class
family in that most Americans of
all sections of America the central west. A family of four it was,..--8 sort of ideal family group...
mother, father, sister and brother.

Theit income placed them almost mid-way between the mini-mum and subsistence and the be
ginning. of comfortable security
lines. They could with careful
handling have enough and maybe a
little to spare. The struggle of
the fzther to provide for his little brood, and the cares, anxieties,
and endless hours that made up
the day of the brave, resourceful,
capable young mother were
graphically and indelibly portrayed. Here were two healthy American ~people in a small midwestern
town, unknown and unsung, meeting the problems of living together

with courage, faith and _ intelligence, and foundi and madintaining. home that should be a

haven of refuge from. the storms

and tempests of circumstance and
a bulwark to their nation and

Happiness Is Not News

country.

MANY MORE LIKE IT

There are many more homes
and families like that in our lana,
but we don~t hear about them, for
happiness js not news. It is that
one home in every six established
that goes on the rocks that press,
and pulpit and radio in screaming
hea ~ announcements and
sermons gtk lh ny oY bd the
scandal of infidelity, and the shock
and sensa of supposed~ ~clicity
~turned to the bitterness of gall

that the public~ feeds upon.

If the press of the country
would emulate the example of
that news weekly, and give publicity, not on rare occasions, ~ but
often, to thé courage, faith, loyalty. thrift. industry and fidelity
which are making of countless
homes wells of living water in the
arid wastes \of our commen _ life,
there wculd be more inspiration
and greater incentive to our voung
people to make of married life the
guarantee of productive happiness
end security that it was meant to
be.

' Would: it not be better, too, to
give a little Jess space in the public press to all of the lurid details
of the latest divorce scandal, and
a little more to the stories cf peo
By MARC MORELAND, Ph.D
(For. Calvin ' Service)

THE SUMMER CLOSES |
I ALWAYS, about this time of

he, ~The Summer Oloses.~
For. no: special reason except that
I like the title and the mild
nostalgia it conjures up. Perhapt
it is because such a variety of
things usually occurs in the sum-.

turns to get a last fleeting glance
of such a. number of things ere
frost falls. |,

Summer! Oh laughing vear! as
the poets say. Spring smiles and~
summer laughs, they say. Ang:
they say rightly.

As the summer closes, another
summer,. one looks back and
notes how uhlovely has been life of
man in ~the narrow corner which
is the earth amid war and slaugh
ties heaped upon individual * man
end the human spirit. A ghastly

summer: it was as if the season

was sicklied over with. the agonized pallor of death,....the death

e world that. now

SEASON OF GROWTH:
It is not good that men should

| defile the summer thus: for it is |,

satisfying relief. }

_ BLACK-DRAUGHT is made from
vegetable

CONVERSATION PIECE

mer and the mind just naturally |

ter and the insufferable tmdigni- | the

and peace beause war _and
pegce are aspects of their political
relations; anil men can recorder
their political _ relations....can
change them utt~rly, radically, so
that their energy and ingenuity
shall be oriented toward the com
concept and practice cf the com
ward power the the domination of
man over man.

~Human liberty. equality of men
end the fraternity of peoples are
the conditions for civilized life,

for the true human climate.
Without these, bitter is the life of
man and brief is the span of his
life in the earth....~And he whose
soul is flat,
him by and by.~

SOME QUESTIONS
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mon welfare; it derives from the|

mon welfare; it derives from aj
political relationship oriented to
the sky will cave jn on)

ple who for twenty-five, fifty or
even more years have lived, aspired and labored together, Who have
known sorrow and walked hand
in hand with grief and pain, Who
have worked and prayed and saved, that a house purchased Ly the
sweat of both of their brows might

become a home where in every | ~

nook a hollowed memory ~would

cling. Who have known the music |
of children~s laughter and the | *
fa of ~their tears. Who have | ~
faced triumph and disaster and | |
| ~treated those twin imposters just | Vidu
j the game.~ Who-can stand at the | *
} altar of God after fifty years and |
ahve each to the other with

trembling ~ps and eyes misty with
tears of joy ~I have kept the

reach the breakfast~table, for verily,
happiness is not news.

individual families ~or |

faith.~ Stories of that kind rarely

THE BOOK
SHELF

By ANNIE L. McPHEETERS

ONE WONDERS - SOMETIMES
why teachers, librarians, booksellers
and publishers make so much ~to
do~ over Children~s Book Week.
Why the exhibits, parades, and
other fanfare? Their reason is a
good one, based on genuine interest and the desire to develop strong
minds among our future citizens~
the children.:

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